A sabbath won’t always save you. Sometimes you need to start something new.

I have a soft spot for the 1984 movie “The Neverending Story.” One day on his way to school, a boy named Bastian hides in a bookstore to avoid bullies. There, he finds a book called “The Neverending Story” about a fantasy land called Fantasia that is threatened by “The Nothing,” a darkness that destroys everything it touches. The kingdom needs a human child’s help. As he reads on, Bastian wonders if he is the child that Fantasia...